It’s Not Just That…
And it’s not just the metal that remains either. Thick black tires are among the debris. Some of them are still wrapped in snow chains that would have helped them during the coldest times of the year. The tires are marked “United States Rubber Company”.
So the site remained abandoned for over half a century, and yet, it may not be there for much longer. For a while, the cleanup of Bluie East Two was a point of political contention between the governments of Greenland and Denmark.